Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 30, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free press tuesday june 30, 1981 government s Canada Day Hopes dashed Ottawa up its plans for a joyous july 1 Constitution party already dashed the Liberal government will again have to Settle for calling the country s birthday Dominion Day. Progressive conservative maps say ing the government is casting aside the country s British heritage blocked a last minute bid yesterday to change the name of tomorrow s National Holiday to the More commonly used Canada Day. They accused the government which last year engineered official recognition of 0 Canada As the National an them of acting too hastily and perhaps disregarding and denigrating tradition. A disappointed Secretary of state Francis pox who sponsored the Bill said the move demonstrates the party s Complete paralysis when it comes to accepting any kind of other Liberal spokesmen Drew on the past to complain that the tories rejected every attempt to build a stronger More unique Canadian identity including adoption of a new Flag in 1964. As musicians staged a late night parliament Hill rehearsal for Tomor Row s Celebration under a giant wooden red and White Maple Leaf some conservative maps admitted there May be valid reasons for changing the holi Day s name. Dominion Day sounds like a Geoff Scott my for Hamilton Wentworth told the commons. Playing cute games but conservative House Leader Walter Baker led the conservative charge accusing the liberals of play ing cute games with the name of our country and threatening to kill our reverence for it by we Are no longer Content to refer to the department of transport the Bureau of statistics. It must be transport Canada statistics Canada. I suspect somebody will bring in a proposal to Call this place commons Canada Day is a sterile Neutral Dull and somewhat plastic he added urging that the proposed change be referred to a committee for further study. While tory maps argued that do minion has a historical significance that must not be discarded Fox called it an archaic term which implies control dominance colonization and Means nothing to most canadians. A new name is necessary because Dominion has no French equivalent Fox added. Most canadians already use Canada Day anyway. However undeterred tory Back benches talked out the time allocated to debate effectively blocking the move. Government spokesmen said the Bill which has the support of the new democrats will not be debated again today. The result is a double blow for the liberals who Long cherished the Hope that prime minister Trudeau s amended and Patriate Constitution could be proclaimed in a gala ceremony on parliament Hill tomorrow the 114th anniversary of confederation. That dream died when the supreme court of Canada adjourned last week without rendering a decision on whether Trudeau s bid to act against the wishes of eight of the 10 provinces is Legal. Unclaimed millions still in retirement fund firefighter on the run continued from Page 1 Macleod said the recent Federal Cen sus helped uncover several examples of unclaimed benefits among seniors who frequent the Centre at 444 Kennedy Street. We were helping one woman with her Long census and when we got to income she had put Down we told her she had to be getting at least More with her indexed guaranteed an Nual income supplement. But she said she was t eligible for a supplement. Apparently she had applied for the supplement a couple of years ago but was told her income was a few dollars Over the limit. When her income went Down later she did t realize she was another woman 71, told the free press she applied for the supple ment in 1976, but was told she was Over the limit. I Don t know. After that i just sort of forgot about it. I did t think i could re apply. I Only found out by a Fluke when one of the girls at the tax office told me this year that i was now Maria Rogers who works at the main Street age and Opportunity Centre explains that for Many seniors Lack of communication with government Agen cies is the main problem. I know there Are logistical prob lems but Why do the elderly have to apply for ail these benefits the supple ments and the death benefits when the spouse Dies. Surely there is a Way to automatically Send them out. Rogers suggested an outreach pro Gram for those seniors whose illiteracy poor English or physical disabilities prevent them from understanding How to apply for benefits. Lions Manor director Jake Suderno Man agreed that communication is a problem. It s hard for the elderly to keep up with All the changes. We try to help As much As we can but we have to hear about a problem. Many seniors depend on a sort of old folks Grapevine for information but that in t always Good Canada pension plan spokesman Benjamin Doupe said he recognized the problem but he wondered How much the government can do. We try to widely publicize these various benefits. About once a year we include informational inserts into the Basic pension cheques. But people just throw the paper away. Many Don t Trust the government. There s not much we can do about old country a firefighter races across a coastal trestle in Hollywood Florida while battling a Blaze of suspicious origin the trestle was saved and there were no reports of injuries. Festivities slated across province continued from Page 1 migration minister Lloyd Axworthy Manitoba s natural resources minister Harry Enns and Winnipeg mayor Bill Norrie. At 6 p.m., Ken Furukawa will launch a hot air balloon trailed by paper Birds. The celebrations will conclude with a fireworks display at 10. 30. Celebrations Are scheduled in at least 19 other Manitoba communities. In flin flon . F. L. Bud Jobin will Host a Ball in his old Home town. The provincial government is Spon Soring a Pancake breakfast and Community dance in split Lake and Community picnic in Ste. Anne. More than 100 performers will pres ent ethnic dance vocal and instrumental selections at the International peace gardens. The Community Folk Art Council will also present four concerts at the St. Boniface Victoria and seven Oaks general hospitals and the health sciences Centre. The Manitoba government also used part of its Canada Day budget to sponsor a birthday poster contest and distribute mementos to students. Postal pickets hit Street continued from Page 1 creases in Cost of living. The Union s nominee had proposed a wage increase of 88 cents an hour. Parrot said the difference Between what the Jasmin had recommended and what the government offered was 1.1 per cent of the total wage package for inside workers. The key feature of Jasmin s report was a recommendation that the govern ment pay the difference Between the 60 per cent of pay a pregnant worker receives Over 17 weeks from unemployment insurance and their Normal wage. The break on maternity benefits was not enough because it was not the full contents of the report Parrot said. Even so the government Only said it would talk about maternity benefits. It did not say it would agree to 17 weeks Worth. Winnipeg Post office spokesman per bolting said there have been no instructions from departmental head quarters in Ottawa on a contingency plan for supervisors to take Over the work of striking employees. He said if supervisors do take Over cup work behind the Public wickets As mail handlers and Sorters they will be paid for overtime they put in. As speculation about a cup strike grew in Winnipeg there was a notice Able drop in letters mailed during the weekend. Except for what came in during the Day All mail has gone out of the main Winnipeg Post office bolting said. The Federal department of Supply and services which handles the bulk of Federal cheques such As Canada pen Sion veterans allowance family Al Lowance judges pay cheques mailed them thursday so the recipients would get them before the strike deadline melting said. Expanded soviet War games telecast on polish television from the news services television showed manoeuvres by soviet and polish troops As the red army expanded its War games to Northwestern Poland two weeks before the polish communist party convenes to vote on demo cratic reforms. The telecast was the first of the soviet military exercises in Poland since the polish news Agency Pap reported joint training operations by the two armies in southwestern Poland last thursday. The armies were manoeuvring Dur ing the final Days of country wide Vot ing in a process unprecedented for the soviet bloc to choose the Dele Gates to the party Congress who will meet july 14 to elect new leaders ratify the reforms already put in Force by the party and Chart the country s future course. Carrington to Moscow Luxembourg the european economic Community is sending Brit ish foreign Secretary lord carring ton to Moscow next week with a propos Al for a nine nation conference to get the soviet army out of Afghanistan. The Heads of government of the dec s 10 members agreed on the peace initiative at a two Day Summit meeting that ends today. There was no immediate comment from the soviet Union but British officials said the plan was in line with signals from president Leonid Berezh f Nev that his government wants a Politi Cal settlement to the afghan War. The participants in the conference would be the five permanent members of the United nations Security coun tates plus Afghanistan and neighbor ing Pakistan Iran and India. Agee a threat to Security news Roundup Agee loses passport Case Washington the . Supreme court called Excia agent Philip Agee a threat to the Security of the United states yesterday and upheld the government s right to revoke his pass port by a 7-2 vote. The justices ruled that neither Feder Al Law nor Agee s constitutional free speech rights save him from the 1979 revocation of his passport. The decision reversed two lower court rulings for Agee now an internationally known critic and exposer of the Cia s spying activities who worked for the Agency from 1957 to 1968. The court focused on the harm done to . Security by Agee s two books on Cia operations i Western Europe and in Africa and by his self described Campaign to smash All Cia operations. U.s., Egypt sign pact Washington the United states and Egypt signed a nuclear co opera Tion agreement yesterday which state Secretary Alexander Haig said should be a Model for sharing technology while safeguarding against nuclear proliferation. Ramp checks in doubt Edmonton the ramp s right to Stop vehicles at random on Alberta highways was put into question on yesterday when provincial court judge Norman Rolf threw a Case of impaired driving out of court. Rolf dismissed a charge of impaired driving against a woman from Wetaskiwin alta., because she had shown no sign of drunkenness before being stopped by police. Police Check stops violate the individual s right to ride the Queen s High Way without being stopped by the Queen s he said. Babysitter s body found Lethbridge the badly decomposed body of a teenage girl missing since she was picked up by a stranger at her Standard alta., Home april 22 was found yesterday near a Lake about 40 Kilometres East of this Southern Alberta City. Ramp said the body of Kehy Cook was found yesterday afternoon by a group of motorcyclists near Chin lakes. Cook was 15 when she was picked up at her Home by a Man who said he wanted her to babysit. At All 6 locations ;